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Yniestra, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pensacola census division. It stands on Graveyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pace quadrangle.

Yniestra within Escambia County

Then and now

1920 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yniestra, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Yniestra, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Yniestra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,850 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceAMY FIRE - 1182
29 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Service57- ORO FIRE-0861
29 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service57 CLEARVIEW FIRE-0932
20 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHARPER ST (57)
2 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance4.3 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service57-WASTE MANAGEMENT FIRE-1516
2 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yniestra: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Bitucrete MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bohemia1.3 miles17
Gaberonne2.3 miles17
Ferry Pass2.8 miles17
Riverview3.4 miles17
Brent4.6 miles17
Olive5.1 miles17
East Pensacola Heights5.1 miles17
Goulding5.2 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122546506The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295721. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.